A man who lost his wife in a tragic car accident has shared his immense heartbreak at discovering she was having an affair.
In an emotional post on Reddit, the unnamed man claims he discovered his wife’s infidelity when her phone was returned to him.
He explained that he wanted to go through the phone in order to find nice pictures of the pair of them to keep.
However a quick look through the images revealed some pictures he wished he’d never seen, leaving him feeling as if he had been “stabbed in the gut”.
Several of the photos showed his wife in a stranger’s house posing in a “provocative” manner, while in others she was with another man.
The post reads: “The following week after the accident I received her phone, which was locked. After a week I found out how to unlock it by an obvious code I didn’t think of earlier. I simply just wanted it to keep photos in her memory, photos of us and so forth.
“But I saw some odd things in her photos. Included photos of her in someone else’s house, a house which I had never seen before, taking provocative images.
“I continued scrolling down and saw the most heart wrenching thing I’d ever seen. Which was her with another man, it was nothing sexual but they were in a place that was obviously his. And just how close they were I just knew that this was an affair.”
After looking at the pictures, the husband became suspicious and decided to check his wife’s messages as well.
It was then he made an even more upsetting discovery.
“I began reading her texts and first I found out that she was on her way back, from his place. Three hours before the accident she text him saying ‘I’m on my way’.
“I knew that meant he was the last one to see my wife. Not only see her but having an intimate moment with her, also she would still be here right now if she wasn’t seeing him.”
As if all of that weren’t enough to deal with, the Reddit user claims the man from the photos then turned up at his wife’s funeral – and tried to shake his hand.
He wrapped up the post by sharing an update on how he’s coping with it all, which unsurprisingly isn’t very well.
“I feel like I’m going through a death of a loved one and a break up at the same time,” he admits.
“She did this behind my back and will never know that I found out. In a way I feel she got to escape the heartbreak she put me through, although I fully understand death is much worse and even knowing everything I know, I would never ever wish this or any pain upon her.”
He adds: “The thing that blows my mind the most is that there were no warning signs at all, not f***ing one.
“Our marriage was good, she never did anything suspicious, our sex life went on as normal. Just zero warning signs about it other then the fact she started wearing a little more make-up then usual. Then I blame myself for not catching on, maybe this all could have been prevented, maybe I should have done this or that… I am broken and don’t see myself ever being happy again.”
More than 200 people replied to the devastating post, sharing their condolences, with some suggesting the man speak to a therapist.
He later responded to say that he would be doing this.